I have a website on Google, made from one of their templates and a sample page, plus my own graphics. While thinking about hosting the site myself, I checked out the source code to see if I could figure out how they get some of the effects I’d like to retain. The HTML, of course, refers to CSS at other URLs, so I went there, and copied the huge single line of code into a text document.
It’s FIFTEEN PAGES long! Most of it appears to be Google’s own code, controlling every damn gadget they make, defining the appearance of buttons and toolbars and menus and lists, and so forth. But there’s other stuff (or at least I think it’s other stuff) – there are class selectors .ac and .kix (kix seems to just define a few buttons and a toolbar). What’s ac, what’s kix, and will making a style sheet without a million .goog-this-and-that break the site? Can that stuff even run anywhere but Google?